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    47 Tucanae or 47 Tuc (also designated as NGC 104 and Caldwell 106) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is about 4.45 ± 0.01 kpc...
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    Tucana (redirect from Mu Tucanae)
    stars, while Kappa is a quadruple system. The constellation contains 47 Tucanae, one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, and most of the Small...
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    Star clusters visible to the naked eye include the Pleiades, Hyades, and 47 Tucanae. Open clusters are very different from globular clusters. Unlike the spherically...
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    stragglers have been observed to rotate quickly, with one example in 47 Tucanae observed to rotate 75 times faster than the Sun, which is consistent with...
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    unit around a star that is within the core of a dense cluster, such as 47 Tucanae, would survive only on the order of a hundred million years. There is...
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  • (1934–1996) created by Dashiell Hammett A binary star system located in 47 Tucanae 9X (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    of a few thousand solar masses may be located in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. This was based on the accelerations and distributions of pulsars in the...
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    Southern Hemisphere, such as Omega Centauri, Centaurus A, the Jewel Box, and 47 Tucanae. Moore compiled a list of 109 objects to match the commonly accepted number...
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    clusters. The globular cluster Terzan 5 contains 37 of these, followed by 47 Tucanae with 22 and M28 and M15 with 8 pulsars each. Millisecond pulsars, which...
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    September 2005, with 1-arc-second resolution images of globular cluster 47 Tucanae, open cluster NGC 6152, spiral galaxy NGC 6744, and the Lagoon Nebula...
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  • even now are occasionally mistakenly treated as Flamsteed designations. 47 Tucanae, a number assigned by Bode, is a famous example. Full-sky star catalogues...
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    clusters to be designated with a Bayer letter; the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (Xi Tucanae) is the only one designated with a Flamsteed number. It contains...
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    third-most in a cluster tied to the Milky Way, following Terzan 5 and 47 Tucanae. Messier 28 taken by Hubble. 2.5' view of M28 taken by Hubble Space Telescope...
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    cluster, NGC 6723, in the Milky Way's galactic halo 740 million years: 47 Tucanae, second-brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way, forms 750 million...
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  • Andromeda Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, the Orion Nebula, Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae, the Ptolemy Cluster Messier 7 near the tail of Scorpius and the globular...
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    Milky Way. Messier 13 168 Messier 15 166 Palomar 5 152 Messier 75 126 47 Tucanae 120 Messier 68 106 Messier 22 100 ± 10 One of the first star clusters...
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    VISTA's view of the Small Magellanic Cloud. 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) is visible to the right of the Small Magellanic Cloud....
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    longer in general use. (A well-known exception is the globular cluster 47 Tucanae from Bode's catalog.) 84 stars entered in Flamsteed's catalog are errors...
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    that Lyne has undertaken includes research on the globular cluster at 47 Tucanae, whose dense stellar population acts as a nursery for millisecond and...
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  • peak), and four are non-stellar objects which are the globular clusters 47 Tucanae (designated HR 95) and NGC 2808 (HR 3671), and the open clusters NGC 2281...
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    Branch Mass Loss, and Dust Production in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 193 (2): 23. arXiv:1101.1095....
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    the fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22. An estimated 100 light years across, it is thought to...
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    the fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22, respectively. It is best seen from June to October in...
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    Merloni, Andrea (18 May 2022). "eROSITA study of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 661: 19. Bibcode:2022A&A...661A..35S. doi:10...
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    47 Tucanae, a globular cluster...
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    ν Tucanae, Latinized as Nu Tucanae, is a solitary, variable star in the southern constellation of Tucana. This red-hued object is visible to the naked...
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  • −13° 57′ 22″ 14 103 Open cluster Cassiopeia 00h 25m +61° 21′ 10.3 104 47 Tucanae Globular cluster Tucana 00h 24m 05.7s −72° 04′ 53″ 5.8 105 Spiral galaxy...
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    2012-01-16 Edmonds, Peter D.; Gilliland, Roland L. (June 1996), "K Giants in 47 Tucanae: Detection of a New Class of Variable Stars", Astrophysical Journal Letters...
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    Outward segregation of white dwarfs was observed in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in a HST study of the region. Primordial mass segregation is non-uniform...
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  • technology involved some significant events. The globular cluster 47 Tucanae (or 47 Tuc), visible with the unaided eye from the southern hemisphere, is...
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